Imperial College London
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DrTimEvans

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7837t.evans Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Graziela De Nadai-Sowrey +44 (0)20 7594 7843

 
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Location

 

609Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Evans:2012:10.1007/s11192-012-0694-9,
author = {Evans, TS and Hopkins, N and Kaube, BS},
doi = {10.1007/s11192-012-0694-9},
journal = {Scientometrics: an international journal for all quantitative aspects of the science of science, communication in science and science policy},
title = {Universality of Performance Indicators based on Citation and Reference Counts},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0694-9},
year = {2012}
}
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RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB  - We find evidence for the universality of two relative bibliometric indicatorsof the quality of individual scientific publications taken from different datasets. One of these is a new index that considers both citation and referencecounts. We demonstrate this universality for relatively well cited publicationsfrom a single institute, grouped by year of publication and by faculty or bydepartment. We show similar behaviour in publications submitted to the arXive-print archive, grouped by year of submission and by sub-archive. We also findthis distribution is well fitted by a lognormal with a variance of around 1.3which is consistent with the results of Radicchi, Fortunato, and Castellano.Our work demonstrates that comparisons can be made between publications fromdifferent disciplines and publication dates, regardless of their citation countand without expensive access to the whole world-wide citation graph. Further,it shows that averages of the logarithm of such relative bibliometric indicesdeal with the issue of long tails and avoid the need for statistics based onlengthy ranking procedures.
AU  - Evans,TS
AU  - Hopkins,N
AU  - Kaube,BS
DO  - 10.1007/s11192-012-0694-9
PY  - 2012///
TI  - Universality of Performance Indicators based on Citation and Reference Counts
T2  - Scientometrics: an international journal for all quantitative aspects of the science of science, communication in science and science policy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0694-9
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3271
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/10236
ER  -
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